Talk:Sea snail

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A note

This is FerRacimo, yesterday i created this page, but have just erased it. I realised an article on "snailfish" already existed and referred to the same subject as this one.

HI —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.162.248.199 (talk) 21:31, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I reinstated the page as an article rather than a redirect. I placed a hatnote leading to the fish article snailfish, since that species of fish is also confusingly sometimes known as a "sea snail". Invertzoo (talk) 13:53, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Another note

i am a 5th grader looking up some information on the sea snail and i would like to know were it lives, what it eats, what are its enimies, what it looks like, why is it important,why is it endangerd well if it even is endangerd, how it repruduces if it repruduces, why is it important to the coral reef, how it halps the coral reef, andsome more interesing facts.

thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.239.26.99 (talk) 21:55, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The thing is that there are literally tens of thousands of different kinds of sea snails. Other than the fact that they all live in saltwater environments, they vary enormously in the details of their lives. Some live on rocks; other live buried in sand. They all eat different things: some are predators, some are scavengers, many are herbivorous, some are parasitic. Different species have different enemies; many look very different one from another; some species are endangered, but some are not; they all reproduce, but different groups have very different methods of reproduction; some that live on coral reefs are important to the reef; and so on, it is really impossible to generalize. Invertzoo (talk) 13:50, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]